https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
but the quality is reportedly bad (flaky hardware, too-fast power drain, reflash bios to toggle discrete graphics (!), slow support) https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/review-system76-oryx-pr...
Really? My understanding was that the RTX series of GPUs support toggling discrete graphics on the fly if you use beta/dev versions of the drivers and X. Even if you don't, the worst case scenario should be having to reboot to enable or disable your graphics card, right?
The only real problem is that when you plug it in it goes to a billion degrees and the fan turns on. Also the webcam is worthless. But other than that it's great!
Build quality, in general, is very good. Some positive highlights:
- It has an aluminum body and feels very sturdy.
- Lid can be opened with one hand and even after one year it feels like when I first got it.
- Keyboard feels very nice: there's a great amount of travel and keys have a great clicky feedback.
- Touchpad is superb, very smooth and responsive. It's definitely better than that of XPS, but obviously not as good as Mac's.
Some negative aspects:
- Some keys started to squeak rather quickly.
- One of the speakers rattles at higher volumes.
- Screen of my unit had several dead pixels on arrival. Fortunately they are only seen in pitch-black darkness on a black background when the screen is at near max brightness. Not once have I noticed them during daily usage.
- Keyboard stays lit for a fixed time.
- Soldered RAM.
- Fans seem to not be of very high quality.
- Slow SD card reader.
Specs: Quad Core i7-8550U, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce MX150 GPU, 256GB NVMe SSD.
Overall I find it an excellent laptop with great specs. I got it for 920 EUR and it's impossible to find such laptop for such an incredible price where I live in Europe.
[1]: https://www.gearbest.com/2in1-laptops/pp_009171639711.html?w...
Steam works fine out-of-the-box but the GPU and CPU are not powerful enough to run newer games with high resolutions.
Screen ratio and resolution is amazing, battery life is not bad, is dead silent which I truly appreciate, and the keyboard is very very nice to type on.
Also, for the battery, after 1 year of hardcore use, it's at 90% of capacity, I don't know if this is good or bad TBH.
I wrote a bit about my configuration here if you are interested [0].
I can't talk for windows laptops but my MacBook Pro 13" 2015 is at 87% after ~3.5 years of daily use. It's often docked in a Henge dock though.
I’ll be interested to see how it ages as well. I have a 2013 MacBook Pro and it’s still in excellent condition.
Chuwi — very cheap and practical.
Huawei's laptops do look very good.
I like that this Huawei MateBook has an all aluminium unibody. (How much other notebooks are there? Maybe not necessarily unibody, but I like a solid body out of aluminium.)
A touch screen is also a nice addition.
His choice of Linux distribution is maybe a bit strange. I would probably go with Ubuntu or so, and hope to have even better support. E.g. I would want to use software like CLion, PyCharm, Steam, etc just out of the box.
Also, I would want to make use of the NVIDIA card. This is also nice for CUDA development. I wonder (I would hope) that this works fine with a more standard Linux distribution.
I wonder how the long-term usage quality is. My MacBook Pro 2014 works still mostly fine now (2019), and even the original battery gives me still about 3-4h of usage.